Features
Everything a workshop needs, and nothing a tradie's CRM bolted on.
Twelve things, each built for the floor. Every one is included in the one plan.
Retention
Service reminders by SMS and email
The cheapest customer to win is the one who already trusts you. Mech Central works out when each car is due from the last service and the interval on the menu, then sends the reminder for you — by text, by email, or both — with the car's rego in it so the owner knows exactly which car you mean.
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Vehicles
Vehicles, rego and service history
A workshop's real asset is what it knows about the cars it looks after. Mech Central gives every vehicle a profile — rego, make, model, build year, engine code, odometer — with the full history underneath: services, quotes, invoices, inspections, photos and the things you told the owner to keep an eye on.
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Invoicing
Invoices with rego, odometer and photos
A mechanic's invoice has to do more than ask for money. It has to say which car, at what kilometres, what was done, what it cost in parts and labour, and — increasingly — prove it. Mech Central invoices do all of that on one page, sent as a link the customer can open, pay and keep.
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Quoting
Quotes the customer approves online
A quote is a decision waiting to happen. Mech Central builds it fast — your rates, your parts, your standard wording — and sends it as a link the customer can approve from their phone. The moment they accept, it is an invoice with the car's details already on it.
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The day
Bookings and today's board
Every workshop has a morning question: what is in, what is waiting, what is ready? Mech Central answers it on one screen. Bookings arrive from your public page or the phone, each car moves through the day, and nothing is lost because it did not have a job number yet.
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Inspections
Vehicle inspections and reports
An inspection is a document the customer pays for. Mech Central makes it one worth paying for: itemised pass, fail and advisory results with photos, every tyre's tread and condition, the car's service history and any fault codes, delivered as a report link that prints cleanly to PDF.
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Service Menu
Log book service menu
Every workshop sells the same dozen services a hundred times a year. Mech Central seeds them — log book intervals, oil and filter, brake fluid flush, diagnostic, road test, battery, tyre fitting — with honest starting prices you edit once. Each service knows how long it takes, when it is next due, and which service follows it.
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Pricing
Parts memory and labour rates
The fastest quote is the one you have already written. Mech Central remembers your labour rates, the parts you fit every week with their cost and RRP, and the engines they suit — then lets you type shorthand and get a priced line.
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Online presence
Your workshop web page and booking form
Plenty of good workshops have no website, or one that has said 'under construction' since 2019. Mech Central builds a page from what it already knows — your name, colours, logo, services, hours — and puts a booking form on it. Enquiries land in your Bookings list.
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Getting started
Import your customers from Excel
The list is the business. Whether it is an Excel sheet, an export from your old system or a CSV from your accounting software, Mech Central reads it — names, numbers, emails, regos, makes and models — and turns it into contacts and vehicles you can search by plate.
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Team
Team logins, unlimited
Per-user pricing punishes the workshop for growing. Mech Central is one flat price for the whole shop: invite as many people as you like, give each their own login, and decide who can see prices and profit.
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Trust
Before and after photos on the invoice
Customers fear being ripped off. The worn brake pad next to the new one, on the invoice, is the fastest way to remove that fear. Mech Central attaches photos to jobs, inspections and invoices, compresses them on the phone and shows the ones you choose on the customer's page.
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Free for a month
Put one real car through it.
Set-up takes about two minutes. Book a car, quote it, photograph it, invoice it and let the reminder bring it back. The first month is free, so it costs nothing to find out.
1 month free · No credit card · $49.99/month after · Cancel any time
What's in the box
- Bookings and today's board
- Vehicles, rego search and history
- Service reminders by SMS and email
- Quotes approved online, invoices with photos
- Inspection reports
- Unlimited team logins